Causes of disease and causes of death

被引：12

作者：

Carter, KC ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brigham Young Univ, Dept Philosophy, Provo, UT 84602 USA

来源：

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE | 1997年 / 12卷

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D O I：

10.1017/S0268416097002907

中图分类号：

C [社会科学总论];

学科分类号：

03 ; 0303 ;

摘要：

In the early nineteenth century, the causes of disease and the causes of death that physicians identified were both sufficient causes of particular events. By the end of the century, physicians were no longer interested in sufficient causes of individual disease episodes - instead they sought necessary causes that were shared by all cases of each particular disease. However, there was no parallel change in causes of death; even today, the causes of death we identify are sufficient causes of particular events. Why are causes of disease no longer similar to causes of death?

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页码：189 / +

页数：11